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Fibre Booting Overview

Introduction

With the release of OpenVMS for Industry Standard Servers or Intel Itanium based platforms, we

need to provide OpenVMS booting and dumping capabilities for Fibre Channel devices.

For the HP Alpha based systems, we have the SRM console that provided a fibre controller console

driver to boot and crash on Fibre devices. The console also provided the WWIDMGR utility that is

mainly used to define alias names of fibre channel devices used for booting and dumping. The utility

is also responsible for giving console device names that are associated to the worldwide identifiers

(WWIDs) of a fibre channel device. With this utility, a user can specify associations between

WWIDs and device names that are used for booting and dumping.

Itanium based platforms introduced a new interface between the operating system (OS) and the

platform firmware called the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI). The EFI is responsible for

initializing the boot devices that are present in the system. This is done by either loading the bootable

firmware from the host bus adapter, the systems’ firmware, or manually loading it from the EFI shell.

The EFI OS is also responsible on presenting all the bootable devices to the OS loader

(VMS_LOADER) through the EFI device path.

When VMS_LOADER is executed, it loads the Itanium Primary Boot Block (IPB) where the

appropriate boot device driver is selected and started. During the bootdriver selection, the WWID of

the Target Port and the LUN of the Target device is saved and later used to select the runtime driver.

Supported Hardware

For the initial OpenVMS Industry Standard Release, we only intend to support the Emulex LP9802

with the firmware version 100X8 and EFI Boot firmware HE200a7. There are current future plans to

support the QLogic 23XX SanBlade series.

Itanium Fibre Channel device booting only supports Point-to-Point Topology. There are no current

plans to support FC Arbitrated Loop.

Fibre Channel storage devices that are currently supported are HSG, HSV and MSA1000.

Fibre booting will be supported on all OpenVMS supported Itanium systems.

Hardware Set-up

Emulex LP9802

Installing Bootable Firmware

The bootable firmware needs to be flashed to the Host Bus Adapters’ (HBA) non-volatile memory (flash

memory). Emulex provided an EFI utility EFIUTIL.EFI which provides access to the feature set of the

Light Pulse family of host adapters such as viewing device characteristics, downloading firmware images,

and manage other hardware components. Please refer to the Light Pulse Common Utility for EFI User’s

Guide Version 1.3 for details on downloading the bootable firmware.

As of V1.0 of this document, there is still a problem with the utility to download the bootable firmware to

the LP9802. For those who want to update their firmware, they would need to do it on

a Microsoft XP

64-bit using the LPUTILNT.EXE utility from the Emulex website.

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